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What Has Game Ownership Become? (Guest: Gameboy Guru) | Patreon Podcast

Added 2025-06-18 05:48:43 +0000 UTC

Hi Everyone!

It's time for the exclusive patreon podcast :-D Today I am joined by special guest, Gameboy Guru! Guru has been a very long time friend of the channel (having appeared in episode 5 of the OG podcast as well as coming to all the IRL Shmup Slams), patron, and runs his own shmup podcast called "Shoot the Core-Cast."

Today, the topic at hand is I think an excellent discussion of what is the nature of Game Ownership, and how is it shifting from a traditional one-time-purchase media container model to now an Online Focused subscription model riddled with DRM and copyright. We also give our thoughts on the Nintendo Switch 2 vs. the Wii U and our favorite handhelds :-)

This was a really fun conversation and I definitely recommend checking out Guru's youtube channel and podcast! Here are his links:

https://www.youtube.com/@GameBoyGuru

https://rfgeneration.com/podcasts/shmupclub/

Thank you so much everyone for supporting the channel, and this week I am getting caught up on more patreon uploads. Up next is my Gentry video about what I am calling "the fighting game divide" and I also have a bonus podcast with Boghog for all the patreon tiers about the "funzone" all recorded that just needs to be edited.

Thank you so much everyone for supporting the channel! We're off to a great start for the year and next month is going to be my 1 year anniversary for being fulltime I believe.